"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
浪漫的本质就是不确定性。
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
经验只是我们给错误起的名字。
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
唯一比被人谈论更糟糕的事情是没有人谈论你。
"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
世界称之为不道德的书籍，是那些揭示了世界自身羞耻的书籍。
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
每一幅充满感情的肖像画都是艺术家的自画像，而不是模特的。
定义就是限制。
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
真相很少是纯粹的，也从来不是简单的。
"We are all fleeing from something, and the things we flee from are often the things we most desire."
我们都在逃避某些东西，而我们逃避的东西往往是我们最渴望的。
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
摆脱诱惑的唯一方法就是屈服于它。